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Curios: Spirits, Survivors and Songs – Where a Haunted Mansion and Rock ’n’ Roll Collide

The links, echoes and mysteries tying an old Virginia mountain mansion to a seminal Southern rock band are too rich to ignore.

Curios: White Post in the Middle of the Road – George Washington Put it There First

The tiny Virginia village of White Post has a historic claim to fame, that people keep knocking over.

Landed Once More: A Loss Endured and a Promise Kept

What, really, did a 10-year-old boy know about the world in telling his grandfather what he’d do when he grew up? Turns out, quite a bit.

Dendroarchaeology Strikes: All the Forest in a Barn

Kristen de Graauw’s passion is learning the age of the wood in old structures, thus unlocking mysteries about the people who built them.

Meet Otto Wood, Bandit of the 1910s and ’20s

The Wilkes County, North Carolina native carved a path of crime across the region, inspiring the ballads that compelled Trevor McKenzie to write a new book, from which we present an exclusive excerpt.

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The Major Graham Mansion, in Wythe County, Virginia, had its first glory days in the 1840s, soon after its construction; it took a strange brand of fandom for a rock band to bring about its brief and musical renaissance in the 2000s.

Curios: Spirits, Survivors and Songs – Where a Haunted Mansion and Rock ’n’ Roll Collide

The links, echoes and mysteries tying an old Virginia mountain mansion to a seminal Southern rock band are too rich to ignore.
The white post of White Post, Virginia, has been standing, in various rebuilt and repaired iterations, since 1750.

Curios: White Post in the Middle of the Road – George Washington Put it There First

The tiny Virginia village of White Post has a historic claim to fame, that people keep knocking over.
Bruce Ingram’s Granddaddy Willie kneels in the garden he created at a retirement home. Beside him is his great-granddaughter Sarah when she was three. Sarah is now 39 with two children.

Landed Once More: A Loss Endured and a Promise Kept

What, really, did a 10-year-old boy know about the world in telling his grandfather what he’d do when he grew up? Turns out, quite a bit.
At Loafer’s Glory in Pendleton County, West Virginia, de Graauw’s work revealed new facts about the barn and house, and about the forest that provided the logs.

Dendroarchaeology Strikes: All the Forest in a Barn

Kristen de Graauw’s passion is learning the age of the wood in old structures, thus unlocking mysteries about the people who built them.
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Meet Otto Wood, Bandit of the 1910s and ’20s

The Wilkes County, North Carolina native carved a path of crime across the region, inspiring the ballads that compelled Trevor McKenzie to write a new book, from which we present an exclusive excerpt.
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Smith Mountain Lake Virginia is a hidden gem within the Blue Ridge Mountains. This beautiful area features boating, sailing, hiking, shopping, fishing, and much more.
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Sarah Smiles: The Lake Effect

Growing up, many of my weekends were spent at my late step-grandmother’s house on Smith Mountain Lake in Virginia.

June 26, 2026

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